- Maple Leafs hire Jeremiah Crowe as director of player personnel
- Crowe spent the last nine years scouting for the Sabres
- Read below for how he fits into John Chayka’s reshaped front office
John Chayka added another name to his Maple Leafs front office.
Toronto hired Jeremiah Crowe as its director of player personnel on Wednesday, the team announced. He arrives from Buffalo, where he spent the last nine years climbing the scouting ranks.
Crowe served as the Sabres’ director of pro scouting for the past four seasons. Before that he ran their amateur scouting for two years, and he broke into the NHL as a Buffalo pro scout back in 2017-18.
His track record runs deeper than that. The German-born executive spent time as director of player personnel for USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program, where he crossed paths with a loaded group of future stars.
That USNTDP list includes Brady Tkachuk, Quinn Hughes, Clayton Keller, Adam Fox, Jake Oettinger and former Leafs goalie Joseph Woll. Not a bad set of names to have evaluated up close.
This is one more move in a busy summer for Chayka, who has been tearing down and rebuilding Toronto’s hockey operations department since taking over as GM. He already cleaned house on the staff he inherited, and Mats Sundin came aboard as a senior advisor.
Crowe has held the director of player personnel title before, so he steps into a familiar role. For a Leafs team reshaping how it identifies and acquires talent, that experience is exactly what Chayka went looking for.
